April 30, 2008 -- GKN Driveline plans to open a major new production facility in Wuhan, China, next year. Haixiang Wang, business development director, said the company will build a 44,000-square-metre plant scheduled to open during the first half of 2009. The Shanghai GKN facility in Wuhan initially will supply driveshafts for Dongfeng and Dongfeng’s joint-venture programs with Honda and Citroen. Expected to provide more than 600 jobs, the plant will have an annual production capacity of more than 1,000,000 driveshafts.
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